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Imac Stuck in bootcamp windows, no commands working during boot

I havent been able to escape windows in a few days now. Its strange. I tried resetting and nothing, no matter what i press it boots into windows. I also tried resetting from the taskbar where there is an option to boot into osx but no luck. It says that the os x partition couldn't be found.

iMac 27", macOS 10.14

Posted on Nov 29, 2019 4:06 PM

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Posted on Nov 29, 2019 4:09 PM

I figured it out actually. It was a simple problem. If you are using an imac with the magic keyboard it can fail to connect while the mac boots. This leads to the commands not actually making it to the imac, and booting into windows. I just had to plug a regular windows keyboard in and hold the alt key and it worked. I was getting scared for a moment though, It looked like os x was corrupted for a second, but no it booted up fine. Hopefully this helps somebody at some point.

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Nov 29, 2019 4:09 PM in response to Nando812

I figured it out actually. It was a simple problem. If you are using an imac with the magic keyboard it can fail to connect while the mac boots. This leads to the commands not actually making it to the imac, and booting into windows. I just had to plug a regular windows keyboard in and hold the alt key and it worked. I was getting scared for a moment though, It looked like os x was corrupted for a second, but no it booted up fine. Hopefully this helps somebody at some point.

Imac Stuck in bootcamp windows, no commands working during boot

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